Livermore, George. An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, as Soldiers. Boston: A. Williams Company, 1863. Loyal Publication Society Preliminary Remarks 1-2 I. OPINIONS OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE REPUBLIC RESPECTING NEGROES AS SLAVES AND AS CITIZENS. Introduction, showing the Present State of the Question 3-14 Views of Mr. Jefferson Davis 3 — 4 Differing views of Mr. Alexander H. Stephens 4 — 5 Chief- Justice Taney’s assertions 6 — 7 Mr. Justice McLean’s reply to them 7 — 8 Ground maintained by Mr. Justice Curtis 8-10 Judge Gaston of North Carolina cited by him 8—9 Mr. George Bancroft’s comments on Chief-Justice Taney’s assertions . 10-11 Mr. Edward Everett’s strictures on the views of Mr. Jefferson Davis 12-14 The Declaration of Independence in 1776 .... 15-25 Contemporary opinion on slavery, as shown from the history of the Declaration of Independence, 15-22. Mr. Jefferson, 16-18. — Mr. Adams, 18-19. — Lord Mahon’s error as to the Southern Colonies, proved by Mr. Force from the history of the Continental Association of 1774, 19-22. Doctrine of the Declaration of Independence re-affirmed in the Constitutions, and acted upon in the Courts, of several of the States before the adoption of the Federal Constitution, 22-25. The Articles of Confederation in 1778 25-26 Free negroes regarded in them as citizens, 25. — Representation by New Jersey to Congress on the subject, 26. The Federal Convention and the Constitution . . 27-62 Opinions on slavery with which some of the framers of the Constitution came to their work, 27-49. — Opinion of Washington before as well as after the Convention, 28-30 ; he sympathizes with Lafayette in his views of slavery, 30- 32 ; his last will, 32-34. — Opinion of Franklin, 34-41. — Opinion of John Adams, 41. — Mr. Jefferson’s opinion, 42-45. — Mr. Jay’s opinion, 46-47. — Mr. Gadsden’s opinion, 48. — Mr. Henry Laurens’s opinion, 48-49. Opinions of the framers of the Constitution expressed in debate in the Federal Convention, 49- 62. — Mr. Pinckney of South Carolina, 51. — Mr. Sherman, 51. — Mr, Ellsworth, 51. — Mr. Gouverneur Morris, 52-54. — Mr. Rufus King, 54-55. — Mr. Sherman, 55. — Mr. Luther Martin, 55. — Mr. John Rutledge, 55. — Mr. Ellsworth, 55. — Mr. Charles Pinckney, 56. — Mr. Sherman, 56. — Colonel George Mason, 56, 57. — Mr. Ellsworth, 57. — Mr. Charles Pinckney, 57. — General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 57, 58. — Mr. Abraham Baldwin, 58. — Mr. James Wilson, 58. — Mr. Gerry, 58. — Mr. Dickinson, 58-59. — Mr. Williamson, 59. — Mr. King, 59. — Mr. Langdon, 59. — General Pinckney, 59. — Mr. Rutledge, 59. — Mr. Gouverneur Morris, 59-60. — Mr. Butler, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Read, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Randolph, General Pinckney, Mr. Gorham, 60. — Messrs. Madison, Morris, Mason, Sherman, Clymer, Williamson, Morris, Dickinson, 61. State Conventions for ratifying the Constitution . 62-83 Debates in the Massachusetts Convention, 62-68. — New-Hampshire Convention, 68-69. — Pennsylvania Convention, 69-71. — Maryland Legislature, 71-74. — Virginia Convention, 74-79. — North-Carolina Convention, 79-81. — South-Carolina Legislature, 81-83.

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Two letters concerning the Constitution, written in 1788 : one by Dr. Ramsay of Charleston, S. C. ; and the other by the Rev. Dr. Hopkins of Newport, R. L, 83-85. Opinion of Dr. Paley, in 1785, on slavery, and the probable effect upon it of “ the great Revolution which had taken place in the Western World,” 86.

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